On Nov 21, 10:25am, Peter Henriksen wrote:
> Subject: RE: Audi TDI
> Also, what are NIXIE displays?
Jeez, you must be young :-) Nixie tubes are the display
technology of the 60's and 70's, before LED's became
viable. They're somewhat similar to little neon lamps:
there's a separate, number-shaped tube for each digit,
and they're all stacked one behind the other. To display
a particular digit, you just turn on the lamp shaped like
it.
Pretty cool-looking, especially the fact that the numbers
travel up and down inside the tube :-)
Oh, and they're all orange ...
-Arun "No, I've never written a Nixie tube driver" Rao
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